Over the past year or so, Google has been clamping down on what it considers bad links and bad linking practices. This includes a wide variety of link building activities that Google considers unnatural. This includes some forms of article marketing, comment spamming, etc. This has led to a large number of webmasters, including many […]

After well over half a year since the previous 3.X release, two weeks ago WordPress 3.6, named “Oscar”, was released and the blogging world, it seemed, barely took notice. Sure, there was the standard griping about having to update X number of blogs and clamoring to learn about the new features, but it can’t be […]

This past May, WordPress turned ten years old. It’s longevity and continued growth in the tech community is nothing short of astounding and a testament to the hard work of Automattic, WordPress’ developers and the entire WordPress community. As a long-time WordPress user, my thanks go out to everyone who has helped make it possible […]

For many bloggers, the desire to become a professional is driven out of a desire to work for oneself. to be in command of one’s own life and be self-employed. On the surface, it sounds like the dream job. The commute is just a hop across the hall, you can set your own hours, work […]

It’s that time of year: School’s out, workers are leaving for vacation in droves and, in the United States, it’s a holiday weekend. If you don’t have a site that’s specifically targeted toward summer activities, it’s almost certainly the slow season. For me and my sites, it’s pretty routine for traffic to drop between 25 […]

Yesterday, I pulled up the site statistics for my main site and noticed that they were through the roof. It was as if someone had just flipped a switch and ratcheted up my site’s traffic by about 4x. That traffic spike stayed with me through the entire night and through most of the day Monday. […]

If you read my previous column about caching in WordPress, you know that it is incredibly important, for both the speed of your site and the health of your server, to run some kind of caching plugin on your installation. But what’s lesser known is that you not only have a variety of caching plugins […]

On Monday, after several days of rumor and anticipation, word came down that Yahoo! was purchasing Tumblr for the tidy sum of $1.1 billion. But While Tumblr investors were certainly happy for their payday and the service itself was in desperate need of cash to keep operating, Tumblr users greeted the announcement with significantly less […]

Yesterday, Twitter shut down Tweetdeck for the iPhone and Android and, at the same time, ended support for Facebook in the app, ending its ability to read and post to user Facebook accounts (Note: As of this writing, my Facebook columns are still working on Tweetdeck). However, this wasn’t the first time Tweetdeck made a […]

Earlier this month, WordPress users across the world (as well as users on other platforms) fell victim to a massive brute-force attack on their sites. The hack, or attempted hack, used a large botnet (a network of compromised computers doing the bidding of someone else) to repeatedly try and guess passwords on WordPress sites to […]